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Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1962
Page
1
Severe weather raked West and North Central Texas with tornadoes hail and heavy rain. Reports cite damage near Irving Lockney Paducah and Big Lake with at least one farm barn destroyed and no injuries listed.
Billie Sol Estes news paper Pecos Daily News to be sold June 11 to highest bidder. Harry Moore, court-appointed receiver, says auction at the paper’s printing plant with ads in three papers. Paper held by Estes with 407 shares of 500. editors note skeleton crew of 18. weekday circulation 3200, Sunday 3500. VOTE SATURDAY.
Colleges in Texas and Oklahoma State University Stillwater with the American Red Cross offer a summer workshop on care of the sick and injured. The Stillwater course runs June 18 to 22. Teachers and nurses may enroll for one semester hour credit or noncredit. Participants must meet prerequisities. others may enroll for credit without college requirements.
Tomorrow is election day with three city voting boxes and rural polling places. In Childress no downtown board will operate. Absentee votes total 26. Northeast and Northwest vote at the courthouse, Southwest and Southeast at Junior High School. Ballots list four posts Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Congress at large with candidates Connally Yarborough Smith Turman Carr Reavis Wilson Bean Pool. Polls open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Relatives in Kirkland report both Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Werner injured in a Monday traffic crash near Rhome. Mrs. Werner, at Harris Memorial Hospital Fort Worth, remains in critical but improving condition with eye and limb injuries, while Mr. Werner is in shock and unconscious with breathing difficulties and ongoing blood transfusions.
Graveside rites were held at Childress cemetery at 4 p.m. for 66 year old Mrs. Wilma Watson of Wildorado. Officiating was Rev. Joe Allen of First Baptist Church. Mrs. Watson, sister to Mines FE Holt Roy Swain and Verna Watson, died Tuesday in Hereford hospital. She was the widow of Jess Watson. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. today in Amarillo.
Adolf Eichmann was executed by hanging at Ramle prison near Tel Aviv. His body was cremated and ashes scattered at sea, ending a widely denounced case tied to the Holocaust and six million Jewish deaths. He maintained defiance and insisted he obeyed war laws.
A Texas House committee hearing on school texts featured witnesses accusing public schools of teaching inappropriate material and promoting subversive ideas. Participants criticized books used in Dallas and at SMU and UT colleges, with calls to curb alleged anti Christian and communist influences.
Oregon may need bigger marriage licenses after another couple tied the knot Thursday. The report notes an Iranian college student Manoucher Pourmanafzadehar dabili and an Oregon City woman obtained a license, highlighting the growing size of documents in use.
Rain general across city and county with .03 additional inches by 1:30 pm and a light downtown drizzle. Farmers prepare to plant or replant cotton after the first measurable moisture since May 20, amid a dry May. rainfall totals include Quanah 1.00, Wellington .61, Memphis .46, and High Point light hail with no damage.
The summer Drivers Education course starts at 9 a.m. Monday at Childress High School announced by Principal Garland Terrell. About 75 youths enrolled with possible two more spots. instructors are Bob Hart and Mrs Barbara Miller. Owners with a balance must pay before 9 a.m. Monday Panhandle Motor Company provides two cars.
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